Deadwood St. Patrick's Day Celebration
The Deadwood St. Patrick's Day Celebration and Parade has been a tradition in Deadwood since 1981. Since that date, each year an Irish member of the community is chosen to lead the parade through downtown Deadwood. The honorees are feted at a luncheon in their honor at the Franklin Hotel prior to the parade.
It is fitting that the Irish are honored in Deadwood, South Dakota. The Irish in the Deadwood area are linked to the early-day mining camps of the area and religious groups that settled the area. In the 1870s and 1880s, the Roman Catholic Church sent Irish priests and nuns to the area to set up churches, hospitals and schools. Many early Irish settlers are buried in Deadwood's St. Ambrose Cemetery.
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